Education (Chittenden Memorial Window)

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Education is a stained-glass window commissioned from Louis Comfort Tiffany's Tiffany Glass Company during the building of Yale University's Chittenden Hall (now Linsley-Chittenden Hall, after being connected to a nearby building), funded by Simeon Baldwin Chittenden. Personifications of Art, Science, Religion, and Music are represented in the work, as angels. Other angelic representations of related virtues, values, and ideas attend them, each identified by words in their halos.

Education, 1890, by Louis Comfort Tiffany and Tiffany Studios
Education, 1890, by Louis Comfort Tiffany and Tiffany Studios

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The left section personifies Art, attended by personifications of Form, Color and Imagination.

Personifications of Perception (seen here) and Analysis (obscured by a pillar) connect Art and Science.

The center section depicts Science at the left, attended by personifications of Devotion, Labor, Truth, Research and Intuition; and Religion at the right, personified by Purity, Faith, Hope, Reverence and Inspiration; and presided over by the central personification of "Light·Love·Life".

One of two angels connecting Music and Religion is seen here; the other is obscured by a pillar.

The right section personifies Music, attended by personifications of Rhythm, Melody, Harmony, Verse, and Voice.

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Coordinates: 41°18′30″N 72°55′47″W / 41.3084, -72.9296

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